Fandom Snowflake Challenge - Day 8

Day 8
In your own space, post self-recs for at least three fanworks that you created. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Ahhhhhh, the dreaded self-rec challenge. How many years to I skip this one? Most? None? I don't know because I always have mixed feeling about self-reccing. On one hand, I can't help but here my mother say "Well, I love me, who do you love?" in those chiding tones, whenever I'd take too-obvious pride in something I'd done. And on the other hand, I know just how important it is to actually love what you create. My works (stories, art, non-fannish creative endeavors) are my children and I really do love all of them (even the ones that are made up of too many words).

So I'm going to use this space to recommend works that I love dearly but have not received a lot of love from fandom. And by a lot of love, I mean a story that's three years old, but has less than fifty kudos on AO3.

A note on how I'm picking these. For most of my fannish writing career, I'd published my works on Dreamwidth and LiveJournal first, and months or years later, I'd put them onto AO3, unless they were challenge works that had to go onto AO3 first. So there are a lot of stories which appear to have a low readership count to them, but that's because they are archived on AO3, and had gotten plenty of attention in their original publication. I'm also not including fics that, by their very nature, don't have a long shelf-life or would attract a large readership, like the hundred-plus MMOM ficlets I've written, or RPF, or the Tumblr-initiated drabbles that I've thrown up on AO3 for preservation.

And now, onto the self-recs and a whole lot of whining and ugliness:

1 - I am Not A Damsel In Distress (and I have been fighting the good fight) – The Ani DiFranco Remix.

Summary: Four things Charlie taught Diana (and one thing she learned all by herself) (White Collar).

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2 - One Foot in the Graveyard (The Living in the Past Remix).

Summary: Back before jail and the FBI and everything else, Neal Caffrey makes a drunken bet with Matthew Keller - if he loses their chess game, he has to spend a day and a night with the dead. (White Collar)

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3 - A Knotted Cord Untying.

Summary: Time is not a looped ball of string. Time is not a straight line. Time might be a tangled knot, unless time is simply an illusion. Or, what happens when Harrison Wells finds a copy his biography at the annual Stuckeyville Library Book Sale. (The Flash/Ed crossover)

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